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Vacation rental marketing firm Evolve gets $2.7 million in funding
DigitalDenver-based Evolve Vacation Rental Network, which serves as an online marketer for professionally managed vacation rentals, picked up $2.7 million in funding in a Series A round, from undisclosed investors. Robert Mylod, a former CFO and head of worldwide strategy and planning for Priceline, led the round and joined the Evolve board of directors. Evolve provides online [...]
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HomeAway CEO sees tough short-term rental laws as a “nuisance”
DigitalHomeAway may have initiated the formation of a coalition with Airbnb, TripAdvisor and Flipkey to fight restrictive short-term rental laws, but CEO Brian Sharples thinks municipal crackdowns are “more of a nuisance than a problem” for HomeAway. One reason is that owners and property managers renting their homes through HomeAway are primarily offering second-homes in traditional [...]
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HomeAway will copy Airbnb and Booking.com for new initiatives
DigitalHomeAway will be shaking up its subscription-listing business for vacation rental owners by adding an Airbnb-like pay-per booking option later this Summer. The model will also become available for professional property managers later in 2013, and that could provide this biggest upside for the vacation rental company. Instead of paying a subscription for listing their [...]
